Apartment Bird List

As my move to the new house rapidly approaches, I've been thinking about all the birds that I've seen here at the apartment, whether at the feeders or in the immediate area. I was surprised that there were a total of 27 including one life bird: the Great-horned Owls that were courting on the office building roof late one night.

One bird on the non-feeder list was the Common Grackle. That really surprised me since they are so, well, "common" and at the old house they were reliable feeder visitors. The bird deities must have been listening because right on cue I looked up and there was a grackle on the railing! He came back to the platform feeder a couple more times, but I could never get a photograph.

Here's my apartment list, and pictures of a couple birds seen today.

Feeder/Balcony Birds

• House Sparrow (daily)
• Song Sparrow (often)
• White-throated Sparrow (common in Winter)
• Dark-eyed Junco (common in Winter)
• House Finch (daily)
• American Goldfinch (off and on .... regular right now)
• Carolina Chickadee (fairly common)
• Mourning Dove (daily)
• Northern Cardinal (daily)
• Northern Mockingbird (common now that the home-made suet is out)
• Rose-breasted Grosbeak (migrant ... only once so far)
• Downy Woodpecker (used to be regular, rarely seen now)
• Northern Flicker (showed up a couple times)
• Blue Jay (rare)
• European Starling (common now that the home-made suet is out) 
• Brown-headed Cowbird (rare, maybe twice)
• Common Grackle (rare, just once so far)
• American Robin (big flock last Fall, but now every once in a while)
• Cedar Waxwing (big flock last Fall)
• Sharp-shinned Hawk (half a dozen times)
• Ruby-throated Hummingbird (last Summer, and a couple times this Spring, so far)

Non-feeder Birds

• American Crow
• Rock Pigeon
• Canada Goose
• Green Heron
• Mallard
• Great-horned Owl

Chickadee

Cardinal with feathers fluffed up

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